Re: Multi-line PS1 color disappearance problem

[Miro Palmu]

On 12/26/23 21:47, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 12/22/23 2:25 AM, email@miropalmu.cc wrote:
>
> > But I did not know that '\e' is valid
> > ANSI escape sequence prefix.
>
> It's not in the ISO C definition of a character constant or string
> literal. It's a common extension that bash and other shells implement --
> common enough that it's in the POSIX specification of $'...' quoting, which
> will be in the next version of the standard.
>
> https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=249


On 12/22/2023 07:21, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> It's not ANSI.  It's bash.  Specifically, bash allows \e as a synonym
> for \033 when expanding PS1, and inside $'...' quotes, and in readline
> key sequence definitions, and in arguments to echo with the -e option.
> It also allows \e in the printf format argument, though I don't see
> this mentioned in the documentation.

Thank you both for the additional information.

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Miro Palmu